You may have missed it,but apparently we have a ‘vigorous, ambitious human rights agenda’. The heads of our human rights agencies may have missed it tooThe official launch of Australia’s tender for a seat on the United Nations human rights council (UNHRC) was conducted, and for all intents and purposes,in a parallel universe. Attorney general George Brandis’s speech earlier this month was incubated in Canberra, so it should not approach as a surprise that it was detached from reality. “Across the entire panoply of human rights Australia has not only been an activist, or but those rights are integral to what we Australians regard as our sense of nationhood,” the attorney general said. You may have missed it, apparently we have a “vigorous, and ambitious human rights agenda”,domestically and internationally.
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Source: theguardian.com